A Well-Made Thriller That Ultimately Left Me Feeling Hollow
September 5 is a perfectly fine thriller, telling the story of the ABC team that broadcast the 1972 Munich Olympics hostage situation to over 900 million people around the world. It has both the feel of a made-for-TV movie (back…
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Sylvester Stallone and Scott Eastwood’s Efforts Are No Match for Muddled Concepts and Execution
Espionage media has seen better days. In recent years there have been high points like the Bond outing No Time To Die, Mission Impossible: Fallout, Bridge of Spies, or excellent series like The Day of the Jackal or Slow Horses.…
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‘Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In’ Review: An Action-Packed Crime Story With Star Wars Stakes and Vibes
The action genre is still firmly planted in the John Wick-era of crime/revenge films, but it's also not necessarily fair to give Keanu Reeves' action icon all the credit. It's abundantly clear that the John Wick films' propensity for practicality…
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Angrier, Bloodier, and Better Than Ever
After a two-year wait, Castlevania: Nocturne is back for a second season. The series, a spin-off of the successful Castlevania—itself based on Konami's eponymous Japanese video game series—returns for a second chapter that's angrier, bloodier, and more thrilling. This sophomore…
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Nickel Boys Review | Flickreel
Nickel Boys has an interesting issue, its strengths and weaknesses being different sides of the same coin. One could see Colson Whitehead’s 2019 novel working as a straightforward adaptation. Director RaMell Ross leaves his unique signature, though, executing the film…
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Anna Cathcart’s ‘To All the Boys’ Spin-Off Finally Finds Its Own Identity
Spin-off series tend to go one of two ways — they can either elevate the story that audiences are already familiar with, or they completely fumble their own premise by being too dependent on the mothership. In Season 1, XO,…
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A Fun Monster Movie, But I Was Hoping This Horror Reboot Would Have More Bite
When we look back on this period of Hollywood movies and decide which reboots and remakes actually deserve to come with us, Leigh Whannell's The Invisible Man should be among them. After Universal's attempted cinematic universe was DOA, the 2020…
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Leigh Whannell’s Howl at the Moon Is Barely a Whisper
While Universal has had no shortage of box office hits and Oscar winners, most recently with the colossal success of Oppenheimer, when it comes to building their own cinematic universe, they continue to lag behind. In the 2010s, as the…
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‘Bad Shabbos’ Review: Method Man Is Hysterical in an Entertainingly Harmless Dark Comedy
If you can't roll on Shabbos (much to the chagrin of the main characters in The Big Lebowski), you certainly can't cover up a murder on Shabbos. Yet, that's exactly what happens in Citizen Weiner filmmaker Daniel Robbins' latest feature…
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Daddy Wants To Protect The Family In Well-Intentioned But Half-Baked Emo Drama Horror
While it’s seemingly fallen into disrepair relatively quickly, or forgotten about at least, Aussie director Leigh Whannell did an exceptional job helping form the sub-genre of modern emotional trauma horror with the terrific “The Invisible Man.” An “elevated” thriller, if…
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Wolf Man Review | Flickreel
Leigh Whannell delivered one of the decade’s most pleasant surprises with his remake of The Invisible Man. A person can’t turn invisible in real life, but Whannell tackled the material in a way that felt oddly practical. He pulls off…
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Julia Stiles’ Promising Directorial Debut Stops Short Where It Counts
Julia Stiles became widely lauded relatively early in her career for excellent romance films, from 10 Things I Hate About You to the Shakespeare modernization O and Save the Last Dance. She's taking on a brand role in the history…
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